Joseph Cela

I’m primarily a street photographer and fortunate that I have the streets of New York City for inspiration. I was raised in the South Bronx and am of Puerto Rican descent. My shots are not planned – I walk and explore the many parts of the city with my Leica Q hoping to discover “frame-able moments”. I try to express the variety of what the street offers in my photography – the beautiful, the bizarre, the brutal. I find that this approach suits my passion as the subject matter is always diverse. In many ways I feel as though I’m still learning to see, and that to me is most important.
The ability to stand back and absorb a moment is something many of us rarely do as we go about our day. However, if you take a moment and open yourself up to that – the observance of things – there is beauty there to capture.
Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoy my work.